Lola Rosario is a spoken word poet, freelance journalist, and translator. Her debut poetry book, Daughter de Borikén (Editorial Pulpo) is out August 2024. With poems featured in The Acentos Review, La Libreta.online, Hound Magazine, Angel City Review, and Thin Air Magazine (where her poem, Childhood Sueños received a 2024 Bird in Your Hands Contest Honorable Mention), her work explores Spanglish as a literary tool to center colonization and diaspora-displaced identity.

Lola’s social justice reporting has been published in NACLA, Palabra,  Latina Media, Green Left (Australia), Hip Latina, El Periódico Adoquín, and TodasPR, among others. In the summer of 2023, she was a scholarship recipient of The OpEd Project’s Write to Change the World. Her feminist musings appear in Rights of Equality, where she is the Caribbean/Latin American Contributing writer.

Hailing from New York City, in November 2021 (after a transformational three-week trip to Tanzania in January of the same year) she moved to her ancestral motherland of Borikén. Lola lives in the jewel of Loíza where she spends her time writing, connecting with Elders and organizing community cultural events.

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Acknowledging the Indigenous Taíno and Iñeri, the Arawak Peoples of Borikén, on whose unceded lands my work is created. In gratitude for and in honor of our wondrous Arawakan and African roots.A